Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23041, -8.61344
- SMR number
- SL019-062003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The remains comprise a rectangular, single-storey house (13.65m E-W; 6m N-S; Wall T 0.6m) with high gable ends and two large butresses on the S wall. There is a doorway (Wth 0.95m) E of the centre in the S wall. There are two large windows to the W of the doorway and one to the E. Located W of the centre in the N wall is a massive fireplace flanked by large windows. There are smaller fireplaces in each of the gables. There are two small rooms at the E end of the house and a single larger room at W. There is a bawn (SL019-062002-) associated with a levelled castle (SL019:062001-) c. 25m SE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.